[mechi]

Hi,

we’re running bbpress and our users should be able to delete their own posts.
We’ve blocked the wordpress menu bar on top of the page after a user is logged in.
How is it possible to delete posts in the frontend without switching to the backend of wordpress?

Thanks,
Daniel

[mechi]

Nobody any idea?

[mechi]

Ridiculous.

[Robin W]

insults – yeh that’ll work 🙂

[byzane]

I’ve been doing a lot of research and I am wondering the same thing. The closest I have found was this:

Allow Participants to Trash / own Topics and Posts

However, that was posted 2 years ago and it seems the code doesn’t work anymore. Ironically, @robin-w it’s your modification xD. Would you mine dropping some insight as to why the code isn’t functioning properly anymore, please. 🙁

[byzane]

Sorry I misspoke. I was unable to run the code through my functions.php file, but it seems to be functioning through a snippet plugin:

Code Snippets

My bad.

[Robin W]

glad it’s working – I’ll take a look later 🙂

[Robin W]

I kicked this code around to improve it and also stop the 404 error when a participant trashes a topic, so latest version is

/*Customize the BBPress roles to allow Participants to trash topics*/
add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'ST_add_role_caps_filter', 10, 2 );

function ST_add_role_caps_filter( $caps, $role ){
    // Only filter for roles we are interested in!
    if( $role == bbp_get_participant_role() ) {
			//only change delete topics 
			$caps ['delete_topics']= true ;
	}
	return $caps;
}
/*then only allow participants to trash their own topics*/
add_filter( 'bbp_map_topic_meta_caps', 'ST_tweak_trash_meta_caps', 11, 4 );

function ST_tweak_trash_meta_caps( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args ){
	// apply only to delete_topic
	if ( $cap == "delete_topic" ){
		// Get the post
		$_post = get_post( $args[0] );
		if ( !empty( $_post ) ) {

			// Get caps for post type object
			$post_type = get_post_type_object( $_post->post_type );
			
			// Add 'do_not_allow' cap if user is spam or deleted
			if ( bbp_is_user_inactive( $user_id ) ) {
				$caps[] = 'do_not_allow';

			// Moderators can always edit forum content
			} elseif ( user_can( $user_id, 'moderate' ) ) {
				$caps[] = 'moderate';

			// User is author so allow edit if not in admin
            } elseif ( user_can( $user_id, 'participate' ) && ( (int) $user_id === (int) $_post->post_author ) ) {
                $caps      = array();
				
			// Unknown so do not allow
			} else {
				$caps[] = 'do_not_allow';
			}
		}
	}	
	// return the capabilities
	return $caps;
	}

//then redirect to the forum after trashing topic
add_action('bbp_template_redirect', 'ST_trash_topic_check', 8);

//check if topic has been trashed by author and show forum if it has
function ST_trash_topic_check() {
	$topic_slug = get_option( '_bbp_topic_slug') ;
	//quick check if we need to do this function, so bail if not a topic
	if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $topic_slug) == FALSE) return ;
	$forum_slug = bbp_get_root_slug() ;
	//if check is set (ie we prefix forums with the forum slug) then part 1 will be forum slug and part 2 will be topic slug, if not part 1 will be topic slug
	$check = bbp_include_root_slug() ;
	$link = explode('/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
	//next we need the topic id (post id) of the topic so we need to check if it is a topic and if so, find the topic id
	if (is_user_logged_in() && $check && $link[1] == $forum_slug && $link[2] == $topic_slug ) {
		$post = bsp_get_page_by_slug( $link[3], OBJECT, 'topic' );
		$login_check=1 ;
		} 
	elseif (is_user_logged_in() && empty($check) && $link[1] === $topic_slug) {
		$post = bsp_get_page_by_slug( $link[2], OBJECT, 'topic' );
		$login_check=1 ;
	}
	//now we need to check if the topic has been trashed by author
	if (!empty ($login_check) && $post->post_status == 'trash' && $post->post_author == get_current_user_id() ) {
		$topic_id =  $post->ID;
		//then redirect to the forum we came from
		$forum = bbp_get_forum_permalink (bbp_get_topic_forum_id (  $topic_id )) ;
		wp_redirect ($forum) ;
		exit ;
	}
	else return ;
					
}

I’ll add this function into my style pack plugin shortly

bbp style pack